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NEW DELHI: A 50-year-old Pakistani businessman based in Dubai, known as Safi alias chacha, is responsible for sending "human couriers" to India with fake Indian currency notes, the National Investigation Agency (NIA) has said in its charge sheet against a Bihar resident, who was arrested last year with Rs 50 lakh worth of fake currency notes. Ekramul Ansari was held at the Delhi airport in April 2014, soon after his flight landed from Dubai. The authorities had recovered 4,988 fake currency notes of Rs 1,000 denomination from his luggage.

KOLKATA: West Bengal Transport Minister Madan Mitra , arrested on December 12 last year in connection with Saradha scam by CBI, today filed a bail plea in the Alipore District and Sessions Judge's Court. The bail prayer was filed by defence counsel on behalf of Mitra. The matter would come up for hearing on February 11 on completion of the statutory period of 60 days within which the prosecution would have to file the charge sheet. Mitra is now being held in the Alipore Correctional Home.

NEW DELHI: A special 2G court today fixed February 6 to hear the 2002 additional spectrum allocation scam case in which the CBI had chargesheeted former Telecom Secretary Shyamal Ghosh and three telecom firms. Special CBI Judge O P Saini fixed the case for Friday after the defence counsel told the court that they needed some documents from CBI which were filed along with charge sheet. The court asked the CBI to provide the documents as sought by the counsel for the accused.

NEW DELHI: A special court today fixed April six to consider the NIA's charge sheet giving clean chit to Sayyed Liyaqat Shah, who was labelled as a terrorist of the banned Hizbul Mujahideen two years ago by the special cell of Delhi Police. The matter came up for hearing before District Judge Amar Nath and the court fixed it for futher proceedings on April 6. Meanwhile, advocate Asim Ali, who appeared for Liyaqat, moved a plea seeking exemption from personal appearance on behalf of his client contending that Liyaqat was on his way to Delhi to attend the hearing but due to blockage on the way, he would be able to come only tomorrow.

NEW DELHI: A city court today rejected a "hurriedly" filed a closure report on a corruption case against some Delhi Jal Board officials and directed the agency to further probe the matter. The special CBI court also asked the investigating agency to also explore whether the offenders could be chargesheeted. "The perusal of the charge sheet makes it clear that the investigating officer (IO) without conducting detailed probe, hurriedly filed the closure report only because the sanction was not accorded by the competent authority," Special CBI Judge Dinesh Kumar Sharma said.

BENGALURU: The Karnataka High Court today asked investigating officer N Nallamma Naidu to appear before it to present statements of the witnesses recorded in the charge sheet in Jayalalithaa's disproportionate assets case. Justice C R Kumaraswamy, who is hearing Jayalalithaa's appeals challenging her conviction before the special bench formed as per the Supreme Court order, orally directed Naidu to appear before him to present statements of the witnesses recorded in the charge sheet.

KOLKATA: The special branch of CBI today said Trinamool Congress all-India General Secretary and former Railway Minister Mukul Roy has assured the probe agency that he will appear before it on January 30 in connection with the Saradha scam. "Mukul Roy has assured us that he will appear before the investigating agency on Friday, January 30 for questioning in connection with the multi-crore Saradha scam," a CBI source said. CBI had asked Roy to appear before it on January 28, but the TMC Rajya Sabha MP had sought time as the Supreme Court was supposed to hear petitions filed by both the West Bengal government and the Trinamool Congress regarding the ongiong CBI probe.

NEW DELHI: A week after a chartered accountant was summoned as an accused alongwith ex-Jharkhand Chief Minister Madhu Koda and others in a coal scam case, a special court today allowed CBI's plea seeking deletion of his name as one of its prosecution witness. CBI filed a plea contending that since the court in its order on January 20, had summoned Vaibhav Tulsyan as an accused, his name was required to be deleted from the list of prosecution witnesses filed earlier. "In view of the submissions made and the facts and circumstances of the case, the name of accused Navin Kumar Tulsyan is ordered to be deleted from the list of witnesses," Special CBI Judge Bharat Parashar said.

KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress General Secretary Mukul Roy , who was summoned by the CBI for questioning in connection with the Saradha scam, today said he was not avoiding the investigating agency but following his own schedule. On being asked by reporters about why he was avoiding the CBI, "Question does not arise about avoiding CBI... I am following my own schedule. " "I have always said I will cooperate with the investigation," Roy said after landing at the city airport from New Delhi this evening.

BENGALURU: Prohibitory orders were promulgated today in about half-a-km radius around the Parappana Agrahara prison here ahead of former minister and mining baron G Janardhan Reddy's release from jail. The Supreme Court on Tuesday had granted bail to Reddy, who is an accused in the illegal mining case involving his Obulapuram Mining Company (OMC). Reddy, facing several criminal cases, was arrested in 2011. Anticipating his release, a large number of his supporters are expected to gather near Parappana Agrahara prison on January 22 and 23 for celebrations, and this may disturb peace and normalcy in the area, and may cause damage to property and traffic congestion in the locality, City Police Chief M N Reddi said in a statement said.